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By Daniel LoveringREUTERS • Friday March 22, 2013 7:05 AM

LINCOLN, Maine — A man who fatally shot himself during a standoff with police in Maine last week
told an officer before he died that he had forced a child-molestation suspect to commit suicide
because authorities had failed to take action.

Bruce King and Lynda Fogg, a woman described as King’s girlfriend, were pulled over on March 11
in Lincoln, Maine, by law-enforcement officers who had been looking for them and the U-Haul truck
they were driving on I-95, according to court documents obtained yesterday.

Fogg jumped out and ran toward police, saying King was in the truck with a loaded rifle,
Penobscot County Deputy Sheriff Patty McLaughlin said, according to the documents. McLaughlin spoke
with King on Fogg’s cellphone, which she’d left in the truck.

King, also known as Bruce Neal, told the deputy he had reported Lawrence Lewis, a man with whom
he and Fogg had lived until recently, for molesting children, but “no one was doing anything,” the
reports said.

King said he killed Lewis by forcing him to consume “two bottles of nitroglycerin and one bottle
of ‘psych’ meds,” according to the reports.

After a four-hour standoff with police that closed a section of the interstate about 50 miles
north of Bangor for about four hours, King then shot himself inside the truck.

Police found Lewis’ body at his home in Molunkus, Maine, about 20 miles north of Lincoln. Lewis’
son told police his father had “expressed concerns about a ‘hit’ placed on him after it had become
known that he was a registered sex offender,” the documents said.

Lewis, 68, had been placed on the state’s sex-offender registry for life after having been
convicted in 1996 of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy who lived in the same household, the
Bangor Daily News reported.

King was registered as a sex offender from Massachusetts but was not listed as such in Maine, a
spokesman for the state department of public safety said yesterday.

Mark Vieira, a witness, said King had told him of videos and pictures depicting Lewis engaged in
sex acts with minors, a detective said, according to the documents.

Fogg added that King had said on several occasions that he was going to kill Lewis.